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REID W. WAIDLEY
Vol. 3, p. 1320

Included among the well known and successful financiers of Woods
County is Reid W. Waidley, cashier of the First National Bank, of
Waynoka, and a citizen who has taken an active and helpful
participation in civic affairs of import. While still a young man as
to years, he has had a long experience, and his entire career has
been devoted to activities in the line of banking.

Mr. Waidley is a product of the farm, having been born on his
father's homestead in Chase County, Kansas, March 31, 1883, and is a
son of Elam A. and Elsie (WASHBURN) Waidley. His father was born May
23, 1843, in Erie County, Pennsylvania, and in 1879 moved to Chase
County, Kansas, where he purchased a tract of land. In his native
Keystone State he had been engaged in agricultural pursuits, and
continued to follow farming in Kansas, where he resided until 1894,
in that year coming to Oklahoma and locating upon a tract of land in
Woods County. Mr. Waidley was successfully engaged as a farmer and
stockman until 1897, when he moved to the City of Alva and opened a
grocery. There he continued in business for several years, but
retired some time before his death, which occurred July 14, 1906,
when he was sixty-three years of age. He was an active member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. On November 9, 1871, Mr. Waidley was
married to Miss Elsie WASHBURN, who was born May 14, 1853, in Erie
County, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Seamer and Lydia (HOPKINS)
Washburn, native of Rhode Island. Two children were born to Elam A.
and Elsie Waidley, namely: Emma Florence, who was born September 20,
1874, in Erie County, Pennsylvania, was married in 1891 to William A
TALKINGTON, and has one daughter, Ruth Pauline, who was born 1897;
and Reid W., of this notice.

Reid W. Waidley received his early education in the public schools
of Chase County, Kansas, following which he enrolled as a student at
the Oklahoma Northwestern Normal School, at Alva, where he remained
until 1898. In that year he entered upon his business career as a
bookkeeper with the First National Bank of Alva, and held this
position until August 18, 1902, when, with J. A. STINE and others, he
organized the Waynoka State Bank of Waynoka, Oklahoma. This was
nationalized and made the First National Bank of Waynoka, March 30,
1910, with Mr. Waidley as Cashier, a position which he has continued
to fill to the present time. Mr. Waidley has an excellent reputation
in business circles of Northwest Oklahoma, and is accounted a man of
high ability in the line of his chosen vocation. As a citizen he has
been foremost in the promotion of movements which his good judgment
and acumen tell him are for the community's welfare and his ideals of
citizenship entitle him to the esteem which is generally accorded
him. In fraternal circles, he has numerous friends in the local
lodges of the Masons and Odd Fellows, with which he has been
connected as a member of several years.

Mr. Waidley was married June 6, 1906, at Waynoka, to Miss Mary P.
NICKERSON, daughter of George J. and Mary (PICKARD) Nickerson. Her
parents were born in Maine, the father in 1839 and the mother in
1843, and the latter died at Waynoka in 1900. They had four daughters
and one son, as follows: Winnie, who is deceased; Frank; Aubrige;
Florence, and Mary Pickard. Mrs Waidley was born September 14, 1880,
in Iowa, was educated in the public schools of that state and Kansas,
and completed her education at the Oklahoma Northwestern University
at Alva, following which she became a schoolteacher in the country
districts of Woods, County, also acting as assistant postmistress at
Waynoka. Mr. and Mrs. Waidley have one son: Howard Windell born March
12, 1908.

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